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EU Farmers Rise Against the Climate Cult

David Thunder / February 10, 2024 / Economics, Government, Policy / 4 minute read

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Independently from the merits of EU climate policy, two things are clear: first, EU leaders and environmental activists appear to have vastly underestimated the backlash their policies would spark in the farming community; and second, the apparent success of this dramatic EU-wide protest sets a spectacular precedent that will not go unnoticed among farmers and transport companies, whose operating costs are heavily impacted by environmental regulations like carbon taxes.

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$2.7 Trillion Buys “Spectacular” GDP

Peter St Onge / February 7, 2024 / Economics, Government / 3 minute read

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Fresh GDP numbers came in and it was a blowout. The kind of blowout that only a $2.7 trillion government deficit can buy while the private economy crumbles around it.

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Four Years Later: Lockdown “Deaths of Despair”

Toby Rogers / February 6, 2024 / Economics, History, Society / 9 minute read

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The Economist article points out that deaths of despair now impact nearly every demographic group (not just the poor whites studied by Case and Deaton). But it never mentions Covid nor the Covid lockdowns that The Economist championed in 2020.

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Can Federalising Central Governments Fix…Federalism?

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Michael Baker / January 31, 2024 / Economics, Government, History / 24 minute read

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The US, Australia, and the EU each started out as federalist ideas with extremely independent constituent states, and with constitutions that made the rise of a large central government illegal and impossible. Yet, in all three places, the federalist project has failed, and a giant central bureaucracy has arisen that is strangling the life out of both states and country, as we have opined previously. How did this hostile takeover happen, and how do we create a new federalism that is resistant to becoming a monster all over again?

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The Sinister Links Between Jeffrey Epstein, CBDCs, and Bitcoin

Aaron Day / January 20, 2024 / Economics, Society, Technology / 17 minute read

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The purpose of this article is to create awareness of the urgent threat of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), to discuss and describe Jeffrey Epstein’s potential involvement in both funding CBDCs as well as his possible role in changing the underlying purpose of Bitcoin, rendering it unusable as a cash alternative for day-to-day transactions. The article also provides a snippet from my book, The Final Countdown, which goes into detail and further provides practical advice for avoiding CBDCs.

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Trump: Just a Big Government Statist

David Stockman / January 12, 2024 / Economics, Government, History / 9 minute read

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The MAGA hats have been conned big time, indeed. Trump has proven himself to be the epitome of a Caesarian Big Government statist. And yet the ostensible opponents of Big Government and all its baleful works do not even want to discuss the elephant in the room.

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‘Science’ in Service of the Agenda

Robert Malone / January 9, 2024 / Economics, Government, Pharma / 8 minute read

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Famine is not a climate change issue, it is an energy issue. Apples and oranges. This is not “scientific”. Rather, it is yet more weaponized fear porn being used as a Trojan horse to advance hidden political and economic objectives and agendas of political movements, large corporations, and non-governmental organizations.

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The Great Taking Exposes the Financial End Game

Bert Olivier / January 7, 2024 / Economics, History, Philosophy / 14 minute read

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One of the very best exposés of the covert, very well-hidden, bellicose attempts to rob all of humanity – barring the miniscule number of psychotic individuals comprising the inimical opposition – of their material possessions and their ‘immaterial’ freedom, was published fairly recently. It is accurately titled The Great Taking (2023), and was written by David Webb, one of the most courageous and finance-savvy authors I have ever come across.

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The Toilet Paper Canard

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 3, 2024 / Economics, History, Society / 6 minute read

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Lately I’ve been hearing that we had to lock down because the nation was in a panic as evidenced by the famous toilet paper shortage of the Spring of 2020. It’s not clear how this is supposed to work. How does a toilet paper shortage indicate the presence of a killer disease that can be mitigated by shutting everything down?

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How the Madness of Crowds Wrecked Something Navy

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 23, 2023 / Economics, Psychology, Society / 7 minute read

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Stories of the rise and fall of enterprises are always fascinating. But there are some strange twists and turns associated with the fall of Something Navy, the fashion line started by Arielle Charnas that is now for sale for $1. The brand opened in early 2020, just on the cusp of lockdowns, and in the wake of the prevailing ethos that anyone with more than one million Instagram followers could make a financial killing.

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What Will Become of Cities?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 15, 2023 / Economics, Society / 7 minute read

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Once you step back from it, nothing really makes sense. One might suppose that when a whole society – and really globe – embarked on such a crazy experiment and utterly failed in every way, that there would be a major effort to come to terms with it. The opposite is happening. Even with America’s treasured cities in such grave danger, so much of it provoked by terrible policies over four years, we are still supposed to either not notice or chalk it all up to some inexorable forces of history of which no one has any control.

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It’s Not Too Early to Name the Decade

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 10, 2023 / Economics, Public Health / 9 minute read

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The times are terrible not because of some impersonal forces of history as Hegel might have it, but because a small minority decided to play dangerous games with fundamental rights, liberties, and law. They broke the world and are now pillaging what’s left. It promises to stay broken and looted so long as the same people either gain the courage to admit wrongdoing or, like the decrepit old men who ruled the Soviet empire in its last days, they finally perish from the earth.

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